Don’t be afraid to seek help

I was in a rut – not selling my books.

At least, not very many books.

The fact is, I had been in this rut for quite some time.

I had tried many of the avenues out there. Maybe you know what I’m talking about.

Tapping into social media to promote my books. Buying ads on book sites. Giving books away for free.

Guess what happened? Occasionally, I would see a very small bump in sales for a day or two. Then – nothing.

I’d like to say that this went on for brief time before I woke up to the reality of trying something different. Instead, I tried some of these same strategies for marketing my books for years.

The hope was that as I wrote more books and promoted them I would eventually catch lightning in a bottle. It was the old “throw enough crap at the wall and something has to stick” method.

Not that I thought my books were crap, but … well … you get the picture.

Some of the reasons my books weren’t selling were staring me right in the face. Unfortunately, I wasn’t taking advantage of the strategies necessary for making sales. It was easy instead to keep trying the same things repeatedly.

I needed to take action, to get out my own way, to apply some of these strategies that worked for the successful authors out there.

I went to the experts.

You can too.

Don’t be afraid to seek help.